It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

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This Christmas Bird Count, we salute the fabulous, underappreciated, common species. Here's to you, house sparrow.

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A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting ...

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?